PopCalendar eXtremely Perfect

PopCalendarXP is arguably the most powerful and configurable JavaScript date picker available. There are very few, if any, things that other JavaScript date pickers can do that PopCalendarXP can not. Simply put with a cliche, it lets you get far more done in far less time.

And the way we name it XP not only because it's perfect, but also because it's designed to be extremely perfect.

Features

• Written in 100% JavaScript, no installation process needed on the client side.
• Supporting all major browsers on Windows and MacOS, including IE4+, NN4+, NS6+, Mozilla1+ and Opera 7+.
• Calendar look is extremely customizable and can be switched among different themes.
• Lightweight and high-performance, main engine is only around 16KB in size.
• Bulletproof^* calendar panel won't be penetrated by any form elements.
• Various effects to highlight selected date, today, agendas and holidays.
• Sophisticated dynamic date range support, visually strike-out any disabled date.
• Retrieving agendas from either script file or backend database.
• Auto-adaptive or static positioning with localizer support.
• Powerful date parsing and auto-correction.
• Contextual agenda messages in status-bar and/or tooltips.
• Versatile and removable top/bottom sections.
• Diversified context-sensitive behaviors, like popups, auto-mail or any JavaScript statement.
• USA/Europe/ISO-8601 conformant calendar formats and week numbers.
• Build-in major date formats support and can be expanded to deal with any format via your own plugins.
• Unicode compliant and ready for localization and/or internationalization.
• Unique plug-in design maximizes the extensibility.
• Expandable holiday function can accommodate most sophisticated holiday algorithms.
• Unlimited date pickers on the same page and only need to load the engine once.
• Easy to install, easy to use. (NN4 needs more care)
• and a lot more ...

System Requirements

PopCalendarXP Commercial Edition was tested working in the following browsers with JavaScript support option enabled.

• Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP
  • Internet Explorer 4.01, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0
  • Netscape 4.08, 4.75, 4.79, 4.80
  • Netscape 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0
  • Mozilla 1.0, 1.1
  • Opera 7.0beta1
• MacOS 9/10
  • Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.1
  • Netscape 6.0, 6.2, 7.0
  • Mozilla 1.0, 1.1
• Mandrake Linux 9
  • Mozilla 1.1
  • Konqueror 3.0
• Solaris 8
  • Netscape 6.0

Some customers also reported that they had it successfully running in browsers on other systems like IRIX and AIX.

Note that this product relies on the browser to function correctly, just like the way that the browser depending on the operating system. We may have to leave it as is if the specific browser has inherent bugs or lacks support to certain features.

Please look below for the known problems and make sure they are acceptable before ordering.

Known Problems

• Problem: Konqueror 3.0.3 can't handle dates later than Jan 18, 2038.
  Cause: A bug in this browser.
  Workaround: Try another version of Konqueror.
  
  
• Problem: The gbShrink2fit theme option doesn't work in IE4.x or Opera.
  Cause: They don't support iframe resizing.
  Workaround: n/a
  
  
• Problem: Netscape 4.x doesn't support tooltips and only IE4+ supports multi-line tooltips.
  Cause: Browser capabilities.
  Workaround: n/a
  
  
• Problem: Implementing the calendar in NN4 under certain situations could result more complexity in web authoring than in the other browsers.
  Cause: The buggy and non-standard-compliant DHTML engine of Netscape 4.x.
  Workaround: Follow the NN4 tutorials coming along with the commercial edition.

Revision History

Release 6.1.119a

+ Added a new option in themes to invert the boldface effect.
+ Setting gsOutOfRange to empty string (i.e. "") can now prevent the out-of-range alert from showing up.
* Added more FAQs to documentation.
* Updated the agenda tutorial to improve the JSP/Database sample.
- Removed some redundant code from engine.

Release 6.1.116

+ Added support to Opera 7.0!
- Fixed a bug that crashes IE 5.0 on MacOS 9.2.

Release 6.0.115

+ Tons of new features added in the theme.
+ More highlighting effects on agenda date.
+ New exquisite high-quality cross-browser themes.
+ New plugin support, extremely extensible.
+ New well-organized well-documented tutorials and demos.
* Code engine has been rewritten and is 4 times faster than before!!!
* Week number is now ISO-8601 conformant.
- Minor bugs fixed.

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History before version 6.0 has been left out.

 

 

^* The calendar panel is bulletproof in all supported browsers except Netscape 4.x, in which case tricks are needed to avoid penetrating. We've packaged detailed demos telling you how to do it right.